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your duty is to remove yourself from this particular position. Do not be a cause of dissention. Demanding one’s rights and wanting to get even are characteristics of the world. The Christian position is to pray about it and, if necessary, to take it “lying down.” If a Modernist has moved in and you are teaching the Word of God, you should be praying that the Lord will deal with him. If you are getting along in years and you are unable to cope with the class of chil dren, it would be best to step down. Be gracious about it; do what the authorities have suggested; assure them of your continued prayers. The Lord will give you rest in your own heart by so doing. Q. San Jose, California — “Was Paul in the will o f God when he went to Jeru salem after he had been warned * through the Holy Spirit not to do so?’’ A. Some have said that he was. He had a tremendous desire to be of help and to testify to his own people. This would make everything Paul did from the time he decided to go to Jeru salem out of the will of God. But, although it may not have been the will of God at' first, after he did go and testify, God made the ministry and witness to redound to His own glory. There is an indication here of both the directive and the permissive will of God. Q. San Diego, California — “What is the chaff and the wheat spoken of in Matthew IS?" A. The 13th chapter of Matthew con tains a number of parables by our Lord. The one concerning tares be gins at the 24th verse: “Another parable put he forth unto them, say ing, The kingdom of heaven is lik ened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field; But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way” (verses 24 and 25). The Sower of the good seed is the Lord Jesus, the field is the world, the good seed are the
Dr. Glenn O’Need, professor of Talbot The ological Sem inary, talks w ith Dr. Louis T. Talbot (le ft), Chancellor, and. Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland, president, of Biola. Dr. Robert Sm ith w ill be Commencement speak er Sunday, June 2, 1963 at 3:30 p.m . on Campus. sons of the kingdom, and the tares are the sons of the evil one. Our Lord Himself gives us the authorative and authentic interpretation of wheat and tares (verses 36-39). Q . Escondido, California — “Our preach er says animals also have souls, but the Bible says God breathed into man’s nostrils the breath o f life and man became a living soul. Don’t you think that I ’m right?” A. It depends entirely upon one’s def inition of soul and spirit. There are those who believe man is made up of body and soul. They identify soul and spirit as the same. In that sense the animals would not have souls. We believe that man is a tri-part being, made up of body, soul and spirit. Ani mals do then have souls. They do hot have a spirit such as we possess. It is the spirit that is made in the image of God; the soul is simply the ani mal nature. Q . Albuquerque, New Mexico — “Does the soul enter the body at conception or at birth?” (Continued on next page) 19
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